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The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
— John Lothrop Motley
Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.
— Constance Baker Motley
Anyway, they took her body to McBurney's Funeral Home in Motley. They'll be planting her tomorrow.
— Peter Hedges
We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
— Constance Baker Motley
I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.
— Constance Baker Motley
When did one man ever civilize a people?
— John Lothrop Motley
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.
— Constance Baker Motley
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
— John Lothrop Motley
The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.
— John Lothrop Motley
There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.
— Constance Baker Motley
The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
— Constance Baker Motley
To have faith in God, you must also have faith in His timing....
— Brandi N. Jefferson-Motley
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
— John Lothrop Motley
Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
— John Lothrop Motley
The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
— John Lothrop Motley
Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
— John Lothrop Motley
All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.
— George R R Martin
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
— John Lothrop Motley
I wear not motley in my brain.
— William Shakespeare
We are a motley bunch. But we more than make up for it with tenacity." ~ Ralston to Simon
— Sarah MacLean
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
— John Lothrop Motley
Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.
— Constance Baker Motley
A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.
— John Lothrop Motley
I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.
— Constance Baker Motley
On Ecstasy, Joan Rivers looks like Pamela Anderson, so imagine what Pamela Anderson looked like.
— Tommy Lee
All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
— Constance Baker Motley
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
— John Lothrop Motley
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
— Constance Baker Motley
Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.
— Constance Baker Motley
Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.
— Constance Baker Motley
With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.
— John Lothrop Motley
When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.
— Constance Baker Motley
My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
— Constance Baker Motley
Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.
— Marion Motley
Local self-government ... is the life-blood of liberty.
— John Lothrop Motley
Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities.
— Nina Garcia
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
— Constance Baker Motley
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
— John Lothrop Motley
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
— Constance Baker Motley
Cucullus non facit monachum; that's as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.
— William Shakespeare
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
— Constance Baker Motley
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
— John Lothrop Motley
When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.
— Constance Baker Motley
Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.
— Constance Baker Motley
Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.
— Constance Baker Motley
One time we saw some hookers but when we got closer we realized it was Motley Crue.
— James Hetfield
We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.
— Constance Baker Motley
I wear not motley in my brain. Good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.
— William Shakespeare
What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.
— Nikki Sixx
Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.
— Constance Baker Motley
I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.
— Constance Baker Motley
The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.
— Catherynne M Valente
The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
— John Lothrop Motley
The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.
— Constance Baker Motley
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
— John Lothrop Motley
The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.
— Constance Baker Motley
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
— John Lothrop Motley
I've seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver, with tears running down my face. I had no idea everyone had such a hard time.
— Stevie Nicks
The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
— Constance Baker Motley
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.
— Constance Baker Motley
If I don't get you now, I'll get you later.
— Marion Motley
Above the youth's inspired and flashing eyes/I see the motley, mocking fool's-cap rise.
— Thomas Hardy
The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
— Constance Baker Motley
I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.
— Constance Baker Motley
How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?
— Constance Baker Motley
For me the motley and the bauble, yea,
Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith,
The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath! — Frederic Lawrence Knowles
Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith,
The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath! — Frederic Lawrence Knowles
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
— John Lothrop Motley
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
— John Lothrop Motley
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
— John Lothrop Motley
I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.
— Constance Baker Motley
When it comes to putting together a new show, we always push the envelope, and that's part of Motley Crue's legacy.
— Nikki Sixx
The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.
— Constance Baker Motley
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
— Constance Baker Motley
Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?
— William Makepeace Thackeray
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
— John Lothrop Motley
Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
— Constance Baker Motley
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
— John Lothrop Motley
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
— Constance Baker Motley
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
— John Lothrop Motley
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
— John Lothrop Motley
Never let anyone tell you how to live your life.
— Mark Hoppus
You might as well learn about sex from Motley Crue than your parents because it's a lot more interesting.
— Nikki Sixx
When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.
— Constance Baker Motley
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
— Constance Baker Motley
Motley's the only wear.
— William Shakespeare
In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman.
— Constance Baker Motley
The thing is that I've known the guys from Motley Crue longer than just about everybody.
— Nikki Sixx
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
— John Lothrop Motley
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.
— Constance Baker Motley